Morgan Garrett has been and continues to be a stalwart presence in independent American experimental music. This new release on Orange Milk Records describes the maturation of over a decade of near constant work and measured, continuous growth carried out in the crucible of Appalachia, and the blossoming of long relentless experimentation into a truly personal, holistic, and fevered praxis. His work has come to evade the confines of genre just as footholds for taxonomization begin to appear, but has found a home amidst both the more personal and off kilter of the visions from American noise and Industrial music as well as the hyperkineticism of the fringes of underground electronic music. On Extreme Fantasy these dynamics inform an unflinching and surprisingly harmonious reconciliation between spoken poetry, flirtations with the grief-stricken acoustic emo space one might associate with a hallucinated Elliot Smith, the bizarre nightmarish country western balladeering of a combat Jandek, and kerosene-damp musique concrete. These all find their union in an environment of crackling static textures and dark, vast reverberating space.
extrememusic.net
Mastered by Alex Nagle
Art and layout by Seth Graham
Orange Milk Records 2023
extrememusic.net
Mastered by Alex Nagle
Art and layout by Seth Graham
Orange Milk Records 2023
